Japanese Language Lab Zoom call

From Michele Sharp, Head of Languages

On 10 May, some keen Year 11 Japanese students participated in an evening Zoom call with students from Linden Hall High School and Junior & Senior High School of Kogakuin University in Japan.

The theme of the Language Lab was “nature”, and the Japanese students taught various vocabulary and sentences to students from Round Square schools. It was a well organised, student-led session that provided our students the opportunity to use the language at beginning, intermediate, or advanced level in breakout rooms. The Radford students had a great time learning from their peers in Japan.

This was an activity organised by Round Square and we look forward to future sessions. A big thank you to Ms Notley for passing on information about this opportunity. Reflections from some of our students are below.

There were students from multiple schools from all around the world who had come to learn Japanese. The students from Linden Hall High School and Junior & Senior High School of Kogakuin University taught us new words with beautiful PowerPoint slides. The amount of effort they put into the seminar was amazing – the presentation, their professionality. It was an incredible experience we had, to be able to get valuable speaking practice, with native speakers helping us. We even got to play a fun Japanese word game with everyone. It was a wonderful experience and we have to give a big thanks to Ms Sharp for making it possible. – Methuli Wijayathilaka

I found the Japanese nature zoom call very engaging and enjoyable. The hosts were extremely friendly, and their English was better than mine. I really enjoyed learning new words, and it also further enlightened me about Japanese culture, which was also very interesting.
ありがとうございます(thank you)！
– Edana Hosking